steven0461 comments on "What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts" - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 May 2009 07:24AM

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Comment author: steven0461 18 May 2009 09:28:17PM 1 point [-]

Doesn't that just mean that grouping doesn't always correspond to addition?

Comment author: byrnema 18 May 2009 11:09:39PM 1 point [-]

Yes. If 1+1 is anything other than 2, then it's not addition. I gave an example of how combining two things together doesn't always yield addition.